Deep Silver announces sales figures for Saints Row IV, saying Volition's
open-world action sequel sold over (Dr. Evil voice) one million copies in its
first week of availability:

Already hailed as a critical success, Deep
Silver & Volition’s Saints Row IV has had a breakthrough commercial achievement
as more than one million units sold through in its first week of retail
availability. In the first days of availability, the PC version of Saints Row IV
more than tripled its first week’s sale numbers over the prior release from THQ,
Saints Row: The Third.

Saints Row IV is also leading the charts in almost all major European countries
in the first week of its sale. The game has already garnered the top spot in the
UK, Germany and Benelux (on all platforms).

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Flatline wrote on Aug 29, 2013, 12:36:News Flash! People like having fun in sandbox games instead of hauling around virtual friends to virtual social activities and sitting around waiting for them to be virtually satisfied every 20 minutes of gameplay.

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Rockstar announced earlier today that they intend to counter Saints Row 4 with a new, as-yet-unannounced combination of features including a realistic blackhead squeezing minigame and procedural generation techniques that allows your virtual girlfriend in GTA 5 to criticize everything about you down to your activities in the game, in real time, over a cell phone connection that accesses your actual phone via bluetooth to call you at the most inopportune times of the game to complain that you don't pay her enough attention and how you're sexually inadequate in the bedroom minigame.

"This is unprecedented levels of fun" announced Rockstar. "We've on average tripled the amount of crying and emasculation during a session of the game, without having to result to peripherals like electric shock trodes attached to sensitive areas of the body!"

They're two very different experiences and I like them equally. I absolutely loved GTA4. While SR4 is doing great, people prefer the GTA style. Contrary to what you're saying.